Threats, Prophet? After all we've been through."
"Promises. And I'm really goddamned good at promises.
S.E. Jakes
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THRITY UMRIGAR Saying of the Prophet.
Lies, promises, trust
He is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise ...
IDRIES SHAH Until nothing at all existed between them.
But shared breaths.
And unspoken promises.
RENéE AHDIEH I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
AARON KATZ Promises, promise, promises. These promises we have all heard before... Nobody pays much attention t...
ADOLF ROSENSTOCK My faceless neighbor spoke up:
“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he wi...
ELIE WIESEL The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
DANISH PROVERB Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
DUTCH PROVERB For some people, promises define who they are- their character, respect for themselves and others, a...
JOSé N. HARRIS And the promises have not been delivered.
LUIS GARCIA Like Cupid,
your promises
were just misses.
TIMOTHY JOSHUA Through it all, she found God to be faithful to his promises to sustain her.
HENRY CLOUD So friendship is all about ignoring?
...
Fake smiles?
...
Lies
...
DEYTH BANGER It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
CHIEF JOSEPH Privacy and security promises must be kept. It's good business. It's the law, and we'll take action ...
TIMOTHY MURIS Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
THORNTON WILDER Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your ...
MARK CAINE To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that v...
MARK TWAIN A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
ARABIAN PROVERB In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of ri...
PAULO COELHO Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.
JOHN GREEN I don't want to make promises I can't keep.
JESSE VENTURA Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
HOLLY BLACK Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.
RICK YANCEY I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promi...
JENNIFER DONNELLY Lust promises you the world, and disappoints. Love promises you the universe, and delivers.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly dise...
ADAM RICKITT His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone el...
ELIE WIESEL Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.
COLLEEN HOOVER You can keep your paper promises
and all your worldly treasures.
But you cannot buy peace ...
RAYMOND DEAN WHITE I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - goi...
MITT ROMNEY The faith-based thing is really important for me. There are certain situations that I would not have...
JORDIN SPARKS There really is only one difference between the two. Mr. Trump promises to support religious liberty...
JERRY FALWELL, JR. The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
BILLY SUNDAY Truthfully, God always keeps His promises but we often break our promises.
JAIME CONTRERAS Good Men stand against corruption and war.
Government promises, nothing changes, only more. Who...
BRENT M. JONES But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in intern...
FAREED ZAKARIA What about your
Your 10,000 promises?
That you gave to me (to me, babe)
Your 10,00...
BACKSTREET BOYS America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
W. R. INGE Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me...
T. MOUNTEBANK I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.
ANNE SEXTON Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fract...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS And truths, these days, are spoken
The same way promises are made,
With gritted teeth and ...
SANHITA BARUAH Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude ...
JOHN CHEEVER Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty.
KRISTA RITCHIE In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only perform...
HAROLD S. GENEEN I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, ye...
JEFF VANDERMEER I've learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it.
TAYA KYLE The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft...
JOHN C. STENNIS To make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
DR. SHAILESH THAKER As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most...
GEORGETTE HEYER I'll only make promises I know we can afford and we can keep.
STEPHEN HARPER Anytime you are promised something huge without doing anything to qualify yourself for that is fraud...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them. But you keep ...
JOHN GREEN A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S Liars make the best promises.
PIERCE BROWN Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.
TAMORA PIERCE In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I've seen enough cowboys in my life to know I don't want one for a husband."
...Victoria
"...
SCARLETT DUNN We kissed for about
the thousandth time,
No promises,
no demands,
Just solid reb...
ELLEN HOPKINS Keep all your promises, don't take what doesn't belong to you, and always look after those less fort...
REBECCA RUPP God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.
ELLEN G. WHITE Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not ...
MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI seven years of empty promises, of following the wrong policies, or of not seeing things through.
GERHARD SCHR The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in ...
CARL JUNG The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Break hearts, not promises.
JOHN GREEN Because there are no guarantees.
No promises on time.
There is only this moment.
And ...
J. SAMAN Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS We all want cleaner fuels, but we have to be sure we can deliver on our promises. And we're not sure...
BOB SLAUGHTER When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from...
JOE SLOVO Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; i...
EDMUND BURKE Prayer turns problems into promises and possibilities.
LORI NAWYN Promises are only as good as the giant teddy bears they are built upon.
BRIAN MCDONOUGH The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
GEORGE ROBERT STEPHANOPOLOUS The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies...
HERBERT AGAR Those of us who are not lucky enough to get the preview beta are still sitting
here wonder...
BRUCE REED Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oft expectations fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Venerable, because it has perfect knowledge of man; lovable because it promises the true good.
BLAISE PASCAL He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB winks and nods and quiet promises over conference calls.
PATRICK LEAHY Promises, trust, love, togetherness, to die for attitude are all fake. Experienced people used to sa...
NEHA KOTHARI Maybe I've got to be sufficiently broken by life's many broken promises to be sufficiently compelled...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are...
HAROLD S. GENEEN It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are...
HAROLD S. GENEEN I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
ALICE SEBOLD He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD He who promises runs in debt
THE TALMUD Life is full of broken promises.
SUZANNE KRAMB I try to keep my promises.
ALAN GRAYSON For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as
personal choice.
ANN AGUIRRE I know many minority groups in the past have had promises made and promises broken. I understand tha...
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